Mental Health Articles

Dissociative Identity Disorder, previously called Multiple Personality Disorder, is the result of chronic and severe childhood trauma. What are the symptoms of DID, how is it diagnosed, and what are the treatment options?

Even happy people, some research suggests, can benefit from taking supplemental vitamin D to forestall or prevent future bouts with depression. Taking vitamin D every day won't necessarily keep the psychiatrist away, but it should help you feel better.

If you were to hear about a cheap, effective and non-pharmacological way to treat anxiety that didn't even require you to walk into a therapist's office, you'd say that sounded too good to be true. Meet Cognitive Bias Modification.

Schizoaffective disorder is sometimes described as a "close cousin" of schizophrenia. Some people who have schizoaffective disorders can lead nearly-normal lives, but some fall into dark, deadly insanity.

People who suffer borderline personality disorder are constantly putting people and things on pedestals of admiration and then knocking them off. Treating this disorder is difficult, but dialectical behavior therapy may help.

Are you drawn to "bad boys"? Why do you find them so unavoidable? Read on to discover the things that make these men so irresistible and why you should avoid them like the plague.

Depression is the world's most common psychiatric diagnosis. A growing body of evidence suggests that depression is largely a matter of genetics, rather than just a result of life choices, and that stimatizing the disease is uninformed and inappropriate.

I'm old enough (ouch) to remember "I Like Ike (President Eisenhower)," I Love Lucy before it was in reruns, and the thrill of owning a Water Wiggle. When people like me are gone, will anyone remember them? Or similar icons of today 50 years later?

Most of us know someone who has OCD, who obsessively does the same thing over and over again. And most of us know someone has ICD, who "lose it" over small problems of daily life. Both conditions are caused by abnormal reactions to endorphins.

There is a strong connection between depression and obesity, with the two conditions promoting the other. The depression-obesity cycle, once started, might be very difficult to break.